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Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward A Better Understanding, M. Scott Bradshaw

BYU Studies Quarterly

Brian C. Hales and Laura H. Hales. Joseph Smith's Polygamy: Toward a Better Understanding.

Draper, Utah: Greg Kofford Books, 2015.

Way Below The Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close To Tragic Confessions Of A Real Live Mormon Missionary, Lisa Torcasso Downing

BYU Studies Quarterly

Craig Harline. Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled but Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2014.

Religion Of A Different Color: Race And The Mormon Struggle For Whiteness; For The Cause Of Righteousness: A Global History Of Blacks And Mormonism, 1830-2013, Patrick Q. Mason

BYU Studies Quarterly

W. Paul Reeve. Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Russell W. Stevenson. For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013.

Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2014.

Building Zion: The Material World Of Mormon Settlement, Steven L. Olsen

BYU Studies Quarterly

Thomas Carter. Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Wandering Realities: The Mormonish Short Fiction Of Steven L. Peck, Scott R. Parkin

BYU Studies Quarterly

Steven L. Peck. Wandering Realities: The Mormonish Short Fiction of Steven L. Peck.

Provo, Utah: Zarahemla Books, 2015.

From Darkness Unto Light: Joseph Smith's Translation And Publication Of The Book Of Mormon, Steven L. Olsen

BYU Studies Quarterly

Michael Hubbard MacKay and Gerrit J. Dirkmaat. From Darkness unto Light: Joseph Smith's Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon.

Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2015.

Salt; Genius Loci, Tyler Chadwick

BYU Studies Quarterly

Susan Elizabeth Howe. Salt.

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2013.

Lance Larsen. Genius Loci.

Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2013.

Documents, Volume 1: July 1828-June 1831; Documents, Volume 2: July 1831-January 1833; Documents, Volume 3: February 1833-March 1834, James B. Allen

BYU Studies Quarterly

Michael Hubbard MacKay, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, editors. Documents, Volume 1: July 1828-June 1831.

Vol. 1 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, ed. Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, Richaard Lyman Bushman, and Matthew J. Grow. Salt Lake City: The Church Historian's Press, 2013.

Matthew C. Godfrey, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, editors. Documents, Volume 2: July 1831-January 1833.

Vol. 2 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, ed. Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, Richard Lyman …

Schooling The Prophet: How The Book Of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith And The Early Restoration, Mark L. Staker

BYU Studies Quarterly

Gerald E. Smith. Schooling the Prophet: How the Book of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith and the Early Restoration.

Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, BYU, 2016.

Transmitting Religion: A Look At Vern L. Bengtson's Families And Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down Across Generations, Loren D. Marks

BYU Studies Quarterly

Over the past hundred years, social scientists have tended to take one of three approaches with respect to the topic of religion. Approach 1 typically pathologizes and intellectually scorns religious beliefs, practices, and faith communities, although there are now hundreds of empirical studies that link religious involvement with increased mental health, relational health, physical health, and longevity. Approach 2 politely ignores, minimizes, or marginalizes religion. Approach 3 engages in actively studying religion but typically with a cold, arms-length, agnostic-like feel. For nearly thirty years, sociologist Vern Bengtson, the author of Families and Faith,3 practiced this third approach.

Exploring The Explanatory Power Of Semitic And Egyptian In Uto-Aztecan, Dirk Elzinga

BYU Studies Quarterly

Brian D. Stubbs. Exploring the Explanatory Power of Semitic and Egyptian in Uto-Aztecan.

Provo, Utah: Grover Publications, 2015.

A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman And Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959, Lisa Olsen Tait

BYU Studies Quarterly

Dave Hall. A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women's Activism, 1872-1959.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 2015.

Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, And Keeping The Faith, Jorge Iber

BYU Studies Quarterly

Ignacio M. Garcia. Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith.

Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.

The Civil War Years In Utah: The Kingdom Of God And The Territory That Did Not Fight, Kenneth L. Alford

BYU Studies Quarterly

John Gary Maxwell. The Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.

Sublime Physick, Darlene Young

BYU Studies Quarterly

Patrick Madden. Sublime Physick.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Spiritual Modalities: Prayer As Rhetoric And Performance, By William Fitzgerald (Review), Richard Benjamin Crosby

Faculty Publications

Spiritual Modalities is arguably the first major work to take up the high theoretical questions of rhetoric and religion since Burke's Rhetoric of Religion published more than half a century ago. While a number of other studies deal with the relationship between religious discourse and other phenomena, such as politics, social movements, or particular rhetors and periods, Spiritual Modalities makes a strong claim to understand the primeval stuff of prayer's varied and complex discourses. As Burke writes: "we are to be concerned not directly with religion, but with the terminology of religion" (vi). So Fitzgerald is not concerned with prayer …

Becoming Divine: An Introduction To Deification In Western Culture, Daniel C. Peterson

BYU Studies Quarterly

M. David Litwa. Becoming Divine: An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture.

Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2013.

Edward Hunter Snow: Pioneer-Educator-Statesman, Benjamin A. Johnson

BYU Studies Quarterly

Thomas G. Alexander. Edward Hunter Snow: Pioneer-Educator-Statesman.

Norman, Okla.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 2012.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography, George L. Mitton

BYU Studies Quarterly

Michael Hicks. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Mormonism And American Politics, J. B. Haws

BYU Studies Quarterly

Randall Balmer and Jana Riess, eds. Mormonism and American Politics.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, Camille S. Williams

BYU Studies Quarterly

Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, and Hannah Wheelwright, eds. Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written In The Deseret Alphabet, Brian D. Stubbs

BYU Studies Quarterly

Kenneth R. Beesley and Dirk Elzinga. An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015.